Friday, February 17, 2012

Friday Links: February 17

You haul 15 tons, and what do you get? A whole lot of shooting and fuckload of meth. [link]

PacMan walkthru. [link]

"Iron Sky" theatrical trailer! [link]

Great response to bad parenting. [link]

New species of tiny lizard discovered. [link]

Someone is doing serious work on an orbital trash truck. Alas, it's one satellite per piece of trash. [link]

Trailer for "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". I liked the book, but it was Lincoln's biography with vampires. I'm not sure they can tell that story properly and keep it to movie length.


Disney and Warner Brothers are fighting over who owns "The Wizard of Oz". [link]

How TSA makes sure people stop bothering to look for terrorists anymore. [link]

Congress approves conspiracy theory fodder. [link]

Pictures and old film about the IBM SAGE. It's basically part of an early attempt at the Star Wars Missle Defense System that continues to be a massive failure even today. [link]

How badly various comic book creators got screwed. [link]

Exploding pig foam. [link]

After Skyrim was done the developer team was given a week the do whatever they wanted with the game. Here are some of the results.


Adam Adamowicz, concept artist for Fallout 3, Skyrim, and other Bethesda Software titles died of cancer recently. Few knew who he was before his death, but many knew his work. Yummy and I have spent a lot of time in the last year wandering his lands. [link 1] [link 2]

Maureen Walsh, representative in the state of Washington, gives a great speech in favor of gay marriage. It supports my opinion, which I don't say nearly enough, that there are still good Republican politicians at the state level.


A brief history of cosmetic surgery. [link]

Coffee... stuff. Art, facts, makers, cups, foam, . Mostly I'm posting this for the shipping container Starbucks. [link]

Zebra stripes may have evolved to make them less attractive to flies. [link]

Siri may not tell you where to find an abortion clinic, but Iris is racist, anti-abortion, anti-evolution, and thinks rape isn't always a bad thing. [link]

Someone performing Dr. Zaius performing Hal Holbrook performing Mark Twain. [link]

Frank Lloyd Wright's doghouse. [link]

The physics behind your favorite science fiction theme songs. Be sure to watch at least the first video. [link]

An article about the world's only military dogsled team. It says that when a dog retires it has to be put down. I think someone needs to start a retirement home for sled dogs. Someone who knows how to handle the dogs. I couldn't do it. [link]

Peter Sellers reading "She Loves You" by The Beatles. I must have heard the Dr Strangelove version on Dr Demento once since it pops into my head from time to time. I just didn't know who did it. [link]

Mormons are STILL baptizing dead people. [link]

Smoke black art on the inside of glass bottles. [link]

Origami robots. [link]
I love me some robots, but if I saw the thing in the video coming down the sidewalk at me I'd be seriously creeped out.

Catholic women use birth control at the same rates as non-Catholics. [link]

The Obama campaign's official playlist. [link]

Congressman John Fleming thought an article from The Onion was real. [link]

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